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Section I. Organization of the Board. 

Article 1. As soon as may be after their election the 
Mayor shall call a meeting of the Committee. 

Art. 2. The Mayor shall be considered Chairman, and 
the President of the Common Council Vice Chairman of the 
Board— the City Clerk is, ex officio, the Secretary of the 
School Committee. 

Art. 3. In the absence of both the Chairman and Vice 
Chairman, the Board shall elect a Chairman pro tern. 

Sect. 2. Duties of Officers. 

Art. 1. The Chairman, or in his absence the Vice Chair-* 
man, shall be authorized to call special meetings of the 
Board, and it shall be his duty so to do at the request of any 
three members. It shall also be the duty of the Chairman 
to bring before the Board, from time to time, whatever may 
require their attention, as arising under these Regulations, or 
otherwise. 

Art. 2. It shall be the duty of the Secretary to keep a 
faithful record of all the votes and doings of the Board; of 
all elections, with the number of votes given to each candi- 
date at every ballot ; to preserve files of all communications 
to the Board, and reports of Sub-Committees ; to copy into 
the Record all such documents as the Board may direct ; to 
notify all its meetings ; to keep a separate record of all bills 
approved by the Board, and in general to perform the servi- 
ces appropriate to his office. 



It shall also be his duty, in the absence of the Chairman 
and Vice Chairman, to call special meetings of the Board at 
the request of any three members. 

Art. 3. A Committee shall be appointed, at the last sta- 
ted meeting of the Board in each year, to examine the Rec- 
ords, files and other papers required to be kept by the Secre- 
tary, who shall insert their report in the E,ecord Book, duly 
signed by them severally. 

Sect. III. Sub-Committees and their Duties. 

Art. 1. At the first meeting of the Board each year, 
after its election has been completed, it shall be divided into 
Sub-Committees, to whose particular care and oversight the 
several Schools shall be distributed and committed. 

Art. 2. It shall be the duty of the Sub-Committees to 
visit the School or Schools assigned to them, from time to 
time ; and after each quarterly examination, to present to 
the Board, at its first stated meeting next occurring, a report 
of the state of the Schools, agreeably to a blank form to be 
provided for the purpose. 

Art. 3. Sub-Committees shall also exercise a general 
supervisory care over the school-houses and other public 
property connected with the Schools ; and may authorize 
and shall superintend all such repairs and alterations as they 
may deem necessary — Provided however, that in all cases 
in which the sum proposed to be expended shall exceed ten 
dollars, the concurrence of the Mayor shall first be obtained: 
and no repairs or other expenditures shall be made, except 
such as are authorized by the respective Sub-Committees. 

Art. 4. All bills and accounts of expenses incurred un- 
der the direction of the School Committee, having been ap- 
proved by the several Sub-Committees by whose order they 
were incurred, and also by this Board, shall after beiug reg- 
istered by the Secretary, be by him passed over to the Com- 
mittee on Accounts. 

Art. 5. In cases of difficulty or emergency, for which 
provision is not made by any rule of the Board, Sub-Com- 
mittees may make such temporary arrangements as may 
-seem to them necessary for the discipline and instruction of 
the Schools, or convenience of the teachers ; their proceed- 
ings in such cases, being always subject to revision by the 
whole Board, to whom, at the earliest opportunity, they 
shall be fully reported. 



Art. 6. It shall be the duty of the Chairman to visit all 
the Schools, at least once every year, for the purpose of as- 
certaining their comparative condition, and to report in wri- 
ting at the next stated meeting of the Board. 

Sect. IV. Meetings of the Board. 

Art. 1. Eight members of the Board shall constitute a 
quorum for the transaction of business at any meeting. 

Art. 2. There shall be a stated meeting of the Board once 
in each month, on such day as the Board may from time to 
time designate, and at such hour in each case, as the Chair- 
man may appoint. 

Art. 3. At each meeting, the Board shall come to order 
precisely at the time appointed in the notification calling the 
same ; when, after the reading of the minutes of the meeting 
next preceding, the roll shall be called by the Secretary, 
who shall record the names both of the absentees and the 
members present. 

Should it appear, on calling the roll, that a quorum is 
not present, the Chairman, after waiting fifteen minutes, 
and a quorum not being yet formed, may dissolve the 
meeting. 

Art. 4. At the last meeting, each year, the Secretary 
shall present a tabular statement exhibiting the attendance 
of the several members at the meetings of the Board, and 
also a tabular statement of the number of Reports of quar- 
terly examinations, received from the several Sub-Commit- 
tees during the year — which statements shall be entered on 
the Records. 

Sect. V. Public Examinations and Exhibitions. 

All the Schools shall be examined, by their respective 
Sub-Committees, at the close of each quarter — the exami- 
nations to be open to the public — to take place in the week 
previous to Thanksgiving; the week preceding the first 
Monday in March ; the week preceding the last AVednesday 
in May ; and the week preceding Commencement at Harvard 
College — the day and hour of each examination to be fixed 
by the School Committee at its next preceding meeting, and 
to be notified by the Secretary in the public prints. 

There will be a vacation of one week at the end of the 
spring quarter, of two weeks at the end of the summer 
quarter, and of one week at the end of the fall quarter, each 
commencing on the Monday subsequent to the examina- 
ion. 

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The days of the Annual Fast, Christmas, the Fourth of 
July, and every Wednesday and Saturday afternoon, shall 
be allowed as holidays ; and no other vacations or holidays 
shall be allowed, except by special vote of the Board. 

Sect. VI. Studies and Text Books. 

I. LATIN GRAMMAR SCHOOL. 

In this School are taught all the branches necessary to 
prepare boys for admission into the University at Cam- 
bridge. 

All boys belonging to the City, who are, at least, nine 
years of age — who can spell, read correctly and fluently, and 
write a running hand — who are acquainted with the rudi- 
ments of Arithmetic and G-eography, and bring certificates 
from their last instructers of good moral character, shall be 
candidates for admission to this School. 

The following are the text books authorized to be used in 
the Latin School. 

Andrews and Stoddard's Latin Grammar. 

Andrews' First Lessons in Latin. 

Andrews' Latin Reader. 

Nepos. 

Caesar's Commentaries, 

Cicero's Orations. 

Virgil. 

Andrews' Latin Exercises* 

Fisk's Greek Grammar. 

Greek Delectus. 

Jacob's Greek Reader. 

Greek Testament. 

Fisk's Greek Exercises. 

Emerson's Arithmetic, 3d part. 

Totten's Algebra. 

Worcester's Ancient and Modern Geography. 
Every Wednesday and Saturday forenoon shall be exclu- 
sively devoted, in this School, to English studies and exer- 
cises, such as Writing, Arithmetic, Geography, English 
Grammar and Composition, Reading, Declamation, &c. — 
The text books used in this department to be such as the in- 
structer, with the consent of the Sub-Committee, may 
select. 

II. ENGLISH HIGH SCHOOL. 

All boys belonging to the City, who shall produce from 
their last instructers certificates of good moral character. 



and of presumed qualifications, shall be candidates for ad- 
mission to this School, and shall be required to pass a satis- 
factory examination in all the studies pursued in the English 
Grammar Schools. 

The examination of candidates for admission to this 
School, and also the Latin School, shall take place on the 
Monday next following the last Wednesday of August, and 
at no other time, unless in the opinion of the Sub-Commit- 
tees of these Schools they may be examined at other periods 
consistently with the arrangement and order of classes. 

The Course of Study in the High School will be comple- 
ted in three years, and no individual will be permitted to re- 
main longer than that term, except in such cases as shall 
be specially provided for by the Board . 

The School is divided into three classes, one class leaving 
and another entering each year. 

The text books to be used are as follows, viz : 
Worcester's 4th Book, a B.eader. 
Porter's Rhetorical Reader. 
Parker's Grammar and Composition. 
Parker's Philosophy. 
Emerson's Third Part in Arithmetic. 
Colburn's Sequel. 
Colburn's Algebra. 
Grund's Geometry. 
Smiley 's Geography. 
Bowditch's Navigator. 
Davies' Elements of Surveying, kc. 
Declamation, English Composition and Writing, are to be 
taught in this School. 

III. ENGLISH GRAMMAR SCHOOLS. 

Candidates for admission to these Schools shall be exam- 
ined in the branches taught in the Primary Schools. 

No new pupil shall be received into these Schools, except 
on the first Monday of each month; nor shall any be admit- 
ted except into the districts to which they respectively be- 
long — Provided however, that in extraordinary cases this 
rule, or either branch of it, may be suspended by a vote of 
the Board. 
The text books authorized to be used are as follows : 
The Bible. ■ 
Young Reader. 
Worcester's 3d and 4th Book. 
" Dictionarv. 



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Mount Vernon Reader. 
Parker's Grammar, 1st and 2d part. 
Smith's Geography and Atlas. 
Colburn's Intellectual Arithmetic. 
Emerson's Arithmetic, 1st and 2d part. 
Reference Book. 
Hall's Child's Geography. 
Writing is to be taught in these schools. 

IV. SCHOOLS FOR GIRLS. 

The same qualifications are required for admission to 
these Schools, as in the case of the English Grammar 
Schools for Boys. 

The text books authorized to be used are as follows : 

The Bible. 

American First Class Book. 

Reader's Manual. 

Mount Vernon Reader. 

Worcester's 4th Book. 
" Dictionary. 

Parker's Grammar. 

Smith's Geography and Atlas. 

Bailey's Algebra. 

Perkins' Philosophy. 

Oiney's History. 

Parley's Common School History. 

Reference Book. 

For the Junior Department . 

Pierpont's Young Reader. 

Worcester's 3d Book. 

Mount Vernon Reader. 

Colburn's First Lessons. 

Child's Book of American Geography. 

Reference Book. 
Writing is to be taught in these schools. 

V. PRIMARY SCHOOLS. 

All children belonging to the City, of both sexes, who are 
five years old and upwards, are admitted to these Schools, 
and may continue in them till they are qualified to eater the 
English Grammar Schools. 

Children shall be admitted only into the Schools of the 
District to which they respectively belong ; and none shall 
be admitted at any other time than on the first Monday of 
each month. 



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The text books authorized to be used are as follows : 
New York Spelling Book. 
My First Book. 
Mount Vernon Junior Reader. 
Emerson's Arithmetic, 1st part. 
Reference Book. 
In the School for Colored Children the same studies shall 
be pursued as in the Primary and English Grammar Schools. 

Sect. VII. Books. 

Art. 1. The text books to be used in all the Schools shall 
be directed and determined by the School Committee ; and 
no instructer shall substitute any other books for those thus 
appointed. 

The necessary text books shall be provided, at the public 
expense, for those pupils whose parents, masters, or guar- 
dians shall, in the opinion of the instructers and Sub-Com- 
mittees of the Schools to which they belong, be adjudged 
unable to pay for them ; and the Board shall annually make 
a contract with one or more Booksellers to supply such text 
books, as may be required as above. 

In all cases of application for the benefit of this provision, 
the applicant shall deliver to the instructer a certificate from 
his or her parent, master, or guardian, of which the follow- 
ing shall be the form. 

[certificate.] 

City of Salem, 18 

This is to certify that I am the of a pupil in 

the public school under the charge of and that I can- 

not afford to supply with the boohs required to be used in 

said school. 

[Signed.] 

The instructer shall then, with the consent and approval 
of the Sub-Committee, fill and sign a duplicate Order, of 
which the following shall be the form. 

[ORDEE.] 

Please to deliver to the bearer of whom is tht 

parent, master, or guardian, the books named below, charge the 
same to the school under my care, and enter their prices, on 
each copy of the order, against their titles. 

[Signed.] 

PEICE OF BOOKS. TITLES OF EOOKS, 



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The Bookseller shall, on delivery of the books, take the 
two orders, one copy he shall keep as his own voucher, 
and the other he shall, within a Aveek, transmit to the City 
Clerk, having duly marked the prices of the books against 
their titles, as required in the form of the order. 

It shall be the duty of the Secretary, at each monthly 
meeting of the Board, to lay the orders he may have receiv- 
ed during the month, before the Committee, stating the ag- 
gregate of the prices marked upon them. 

Sect. VIII. Rules for the Government of the Schools 

Art. 1. From the first of April to the first of October the 
school hours shall be from eight o'clock to eleven o'clock, A. 
M., and from two to five o'clock, P. M. From the first of 
October to the first of April, from nine to twelve o'clock, A. 
M., and from two to half past four o'clock, P. M. 

Art. 2. Instructers shall be punctual in their attendance 
at the hours assigned for opening the Schools, and the exer- 
cises shall commence punctually at these hours. The hours 
for closing the Schools shall also be carefully observed. 

Art. 3. The scholars are required to be punctual in 
their attendance at the hour of opening School ; and all tar- 
diness shall be noted, and punished, unless excused for 
sufficient reason. 

Art. 4. No scholar is permitted to be absent from school 
except in case of his own sickness, or of sickness or death 
in the family to which he belongs. 

Art. 5. When any scholar, not entitled to be excused 
for either of these reasons, shall have been absent from 
school twice in a term, he shall be forthwith dismissed, and 
shall not be permitted to join the same, nor any other public 
school until the next term— 

Provided, That the Sub-Committee of each School may 
dispense with this rule in all cases where a reasonable cause 
for the absence shall be shown. 

Art. 6. In all cases of flagrant misconduct of the schol- 
ars, or any of them, instructers shall be authorized to sus- 
pend them from school until the appropriate Sub-Committee 
can be consulted, who shall adopt such measures as may 
seem to them proper. 

Art. 7. The instructers are required to keep, on a blank 
form provided for the purpose, a list of their scholars, upon 
which they shall note their ages, their absences and tardi- 



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nesses, and their general conduct and progress in their stud- 
ies, and they shall exhibit the same at each examination, 
and at all other visitations, whether by the Sub-Committee 
or any other member of the Board. 

Art. 8. The Instructers shall keep a record of merits 
and demerits — they shall be furnished with blanks for that 
purpose, and the result shall be presented to the parents or 
guardians, through the hands of the pupils, at the close of 
each month. 

Art. 9. It is enjoined upon the Instructers to pay par- 
ticular and careful attention to their respective school- 
houses and appurtenances, that they may be preserved, as 
far as possible, from injury. And in all cases of damage, 
by breaking glass or otherwise, the instructers shall be re- 
quired to assess the same upon such scholar or scholars as 
may have occasioned it. 

Art. 10. It shall not be allowed to any teacher of a pub- 
lic school to keep a private school, or to give lessons to any 
private pupils, till after the usual hour for closing the schools 
for the day. 

Art. 11. No Instructer shall employ a substitute, except 
in cases of sickness, and in such cases the facts shall forth- 
with be communicated to the Mayor, and no substitute shall 
remain in a school more than a fortnight without the con- 
sent of the School Committee. 

Art. 12. Whenever complaint shall be made by the cit- 
izens of any district against an instructer, or when the Sub- 
Committee of any School shall report that a change in the 
instructer of said School is necessary, a Special Committee 
of three shall be forthwith chosen by ballot, to visit the 
School and report, as soon as practicable, the result of their 
examination, and their report shall be immediately acted 
upon by the Board. 

Art. 13. Every proposition to amend the foregoing Rules 
and Regulations shall lie over at least one stated meeting, 
and all changes or additions actually made in the same shall 
be communicated in writing by the Secretary to the several 
instructers. 

Sect. IX. School Law. 

The Town of Salem may elect such a number of persons 
to perform the duties of School Committee, as the town, at 
its annual meeting for the choice of town officers, shall de- 
termine. [Stat. 1829. Chap. 127.] 



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REVISED STATUTES— Chapter XXIII. 

Section 1. In every town, con laining fifty What schools 
families or householders, there shall be kept in STb^townTof 
each year, at the charge of the town, by a teach- 50 families. 
er or teachers of competent ability and good 1826 > 143 ' § L 
morals, one school for the instruction of chil- 
dren in orthography, reading, writing, English 
grammar, geography, arithmetic, and good be- 
havior, for the term of six months, or two or 
more such schools, for terms of time, that shall 
together be equivalent to six months. 

Sect. 2. In every town containing one hun- — of 10 ° fami " 
dred families or householders, there shall be kept jgjg 143 * L 
each year one such school, for the term of twelve 
months, or two or more such schools, for terms 
of time, that shall together be equivalent to 
twelve months. 

Sect. 3. In every town, containing one hun — of 150 fami- 
dred and fifty families or householders, there ^||- . 
shall be kept in each year two such schools, for 
nine months each, or three or more such schools 
for terms of time, that shall together be equiv- 
alent to eighteen months. 

Sect. 4. In every town containing five hun-— of 500 fami- 
dred families or househoulders, there shall be j^g 143*1. 
kept in each year two such schools for twelve 
months each, or three or more such schools, for 
terms of time, that shall together be equivalent 
to twenty-four months. 

Sect. 5. Every town, containing five hun- Additional 
dred families or householders, shall, besides the s ^ h i ) n °i l n to l v "* 

, , m 1 • i t • of 500 families, 

schools prescribed in the preceding section, except, &c. 
maintain a school, to be kept by a master of 16 Mass - hi, 
competent ability and good morals, who shall, 
in addition to the branches of learning before 
mentioned, give instruction in the history of the 
United States, book-keeping, surveying, geome- 
try, and algebra ; and such last mentioned 
school shall be kept for the benefit of all the 
inhabitants of the town, ten months at least, 
exclusive of vacations, in each year, and at such 
convenient place, or alternately at such places 
in the town, as the said inhabitants at their 



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annual meeting shall determine ; and, in every — ™ towns or 
town containing four thousand inhabitants, the ^ te# x u ~ 
said master shall, in addition to all the branches 1826, 143, § I. 
of instruction before required in this chapter, be 
competent to instruct in the Latin and Greek 
languages, and general history, rhetoric and 
logic. 

Sect. 6. Any town, containing less than five Towns of less 
hundred families or householders, may establish unauthorized 
and maintain such a school, as is first mention- to maintain 
ed in the preceding section, for such term f scnool ' &c - 
time, in any year, or in each year, as they shall 
deem expedient. 

Sect. 7. It shall be the duty of the presi- Duty of in- 
dent, professors, and tutors of the university at j^"^^ 111 co1 " 
Cambridge, and of the several colleges, and of Constitution, 
all preceptors and teachers of academies, and ch - 5 > §2. 
all other instructors of youth, to exert their best ' * ' * 
endeavors, to impress on the minds of children 
and youth, committed to their care and instruc- 
tion, the principles of piety, justice, and a sa- 
cred regard to truth, love to their country, hu- 
manity and universal benevolence, sobriety, in- 
dustry, and frugality, chastity, moderation, and 
temperance, and those other virtues, which are 
the ornament of human society, and the basis 
upon which a republican constitution is found- 
ed ; and it shall be the duty of such instructors 
to endeavor to lead their pupils, as their ages 
and capacities will admit, into a clear under- 
standing of the tendency of the above mention- 
ed virtues to preserve and perfect a republican 
constitution, and secure the blessings of liberty, 
as well as to promote their future happiness, 
and also to point out to them the evil tendency 
of the opposite vices. 

Sect. 8. It shall be the duty of the resident Dut y of minis- 
ministers of the gospel, the selectmen, and the officered t0WD 
school committees, in the several towns, to ex- 1826, 143, § 3. 
ert their influence, and use their best endeav- 
ors, that the youth of their towns shall regular- 
ly attend the schools established for their in- 
struction. 



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Towns may Sect. 9. The several towns are authorized 

schools. an d directed, at their annual meetings, or at any 

1826, 143, §4. regular meeting called for the purpose, to raise 

such sums of money, for the support of the 

schools aforesaid, as they shall judge necessary ; 

which sums shall be assessed and collected in 

like manner as other town taxes. 
School commit- Sect. 10. The inhabitants of every town 
sen\mmaiiy h °~ sna H> at their annual meeting, choose, by writ- 
1826, 143, § 4. ten ballots, a school committee, consisting of 

three, five, or seven persons, who shall have the 

general charge and superintendence of all the 

public schools in such town. 
Duty of com- Sect. 11. In any town, containing five hun- 
mittee, where dred families, and in which a school shall be 

for 10 benefit kei of ke P c for tlie Denefit of ali the inhabitants, as be- 
all the inhabit- fore provided in this chapter, the school commit- 
*?*!* tee, chosen under the preceding section, shall 

perform all the like duties, in relation to such 
school, the house where it shall be kept, and the 
supply of all things necessary therefor, which 
the prudential committee of a school district 
may perform in such district. 
Additional Sect. 12. Any town, containing more than 

members, in £ our thousand inhabitants, may choose an ad- 
certain towns. T-l l J" • 1 

1826, 143, §5. ditional number, not exceeding six, on such 

committee. 
School commit- Sect. 13. The school committee shall re- 
tee to examine q U { re f u n an d satisfactory evidence of the good 
cations 6 ^ot in- moral character of all instructors who may be 
stmcters. employed in the public schools in their town, 

1826, 143, § 5. an( j ghaji ascertain, by personal examination, 
their literary qualifications and capacity for the 
government of schools. 
Instructed not Sect. 14. Every instructor of a town or dis- 
le^the^oom- tr i ct scft0 °l sna H obtain, of the school commit- 
mitte certify, tee of such town, a certificate in duplicate, of 
&c - his qualifications, before he opens such school, 

one of which shall be filed with the town trea- 
surer, before any payment is made to such in- 
structor on account of his services. 



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Sect. 15. The school committee shall deter- Committee to 
mine the number and qualifications of the schol- mission °of a " 
ars, to be admitted into the school, kept for the scholars into 
use of the whole town, as aforesaid, and visit s t ? hoo l fee Pl fOT 

, , , , ' i n 7 .-. the whole town 

such school, al least quarter yearly, for the pur- 1826, 143, § 5. 
pose of making a careful examination thereof, 
and of ascertaining that the scholars are prop- 
erly supplied with books; and they shall, at 
such examination, inquire into the regulation 
and discipline of the school, and the habits and 
proficiency of the scholars therein. 

Sect. 16. The school committee, or some committee to 
one or more of them, shall, for the purposes a- visit all the dis- 
foresaid, visit each of the district schools in their ^l S i43° § 5. 
town, on some day during the first or second 
week after the opening of such schools, respec- 
tively, and also on some day during the two 
weeks preceding the closing of the same ; and 
shall also, for the same purposes, visit all the 
schools kept by the town, once a month, with- 
out giving previous notice thereof to the instruc- 
tors. 

Sect. 17. The school committee of each Authority of 
town shall direct what books shall be used in 5°™?*"^ ®L 

, , , , , , , , to school books 

the several schools kept by the town ; and may 1826, 143, § 7. 
direct what books shall be used in the respec- 
tive classes. 

Sect. 18. The scholars at the town schools Parents, &c to 
shall 'be supplied by their parents, masters or supply the pre- 
guardians, with the books prescribed for their i826, e i43° § 7." 
classes. 

Sect. 19. The school committee of each Books may be 
town may procure, at the expense of the town, provided by the 
or otherwise, a sufficient supply of such class s t f™° 1 commit - 
books, for all the schools aforesaid, and shall 13 Pick. 229. 
give notice of the place where such books may 1826 ' 143 ' § 7 - 
be obtained ; and the books shall be supplied to 
the scholars, at such prices, as merely to reim- 
burse the expense of the same. 

Sect. 20. In case any scholar shall not be Books to be 
furnished by his parent, master, or guardian, furnished, &c. 
with the requisite books, he shall be supplied S e town." 6 ° f 
therewith by the school committee, at the ex- 1826, 143,' § 7. 
pense of the town. 



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booksll su f Sect. 21. The school committee shall give 

plie/to be tax- notice in writing, to the assessors of the town, 
ed to parents, of the names of the scholars so supplied by them 
ufo'fi iaq * n with books, and of the books so furnished, the 
prices tnereoi, and the names ot the parents, 
masters or guardians, who ought to have sup- 
plied the same ; and said assessors shall add the 
price of the books so supplied, to the next an- 
nual tax of such parents, masters, or guardians ; 
and the amount so added shall be levied, collec- 
ted, and paid into the town treasury, in the 
same manner as the town taxes. 
if parents are Sect. 22. In case the assessors shall be of 
una ^. t0 P 9 -^' opinion, that any such parent, master, or guard- 
be whoiiy m or i an > is unable to pay the whole expense of the 
partially omit- books so supplied on his account, they shall o- 
1826 143 s 7 m ^ t0 a( ^ tne P r i ce °f such books, or shall add 
only a part thereof, to the annual tax of such 
parent, master, or guardian, according to their 
opinion of his ability to pay. 
Booksnottobe Sect. 23. The school committee shall never 
bought which direct to be purchased or used, in any of the 
ticuiar ai seGt )a o"f town schools, any school books, which are cal- 
christians. culated to favor the tenets of any particular sect 
1826, 143, §7. of christians. 

SCHOOL DISTRICTS. 

School districts Sect. 24. The inhabitants of every town 

—formation of may, at any town meeting, to be called for that. 

12 Pick l 206 n ' P ur P ose > divide their town into school districts, 

7 ib. 106. ' and determine the limits of such districts ; or 

I82fi b 'i4?'s 2 tne y ma y> if tfte Y tnm k ft expedient, carry into 
26, , § 2. e g- ect ^e provisions of this chapter, without 
forming such districts. 

Sect. 25. Every town, which is or may be 
committee^m divided into school districts, shall, at their an- 
each district, nual meeting, in addition to the school commit- 
iS26 iC l43 2 ?"6 tee ^ or tne town > choose one person, resident in 
' each school district, to be a committee for that 

district, and to be called the prudential commit- 
tee ; who shall keep the school house of such 
district in good order, at the expense of the dis- 
trict : and, in case there be no school house, pro- 



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vide a suitable place for the school of the dis- 
trict, at the expense thereof; provide fuel, and 
all things necessary for the comfort of the schol- 
ars therein ; select and contract with a school 
master for the district ; and give such informa- 
tion and assistance to the school committee of 
the town, as may be necessary to aid them in 
the discharge of the duties required of them. 

Sect. 26. In any town, which shall so de-~ ™'p T ^e cho- 
termine, the said prudential committee may be tric t s. Y 
chosen by the inhabitants of the several school 1826, 143, § 6. 
districts to which they respectively belong, in 
such manner as the district may direct. 

Sect. 28. The said inhabitants may, at any Districts may 
meeting called for that purpose, raise money for ^erection of 
erecting or repairing school houses in their re- houses and oth- 
spective districts ; for purchasing or hiring any fj purposes. 
buildings to be used as school houses, and land f School 16 
for the use and accommodation thereof ; for houses. 
purchasing fuel, furniture, and other necessary 1829 ' 116, 
articles for the use of schools ; they may also 
determine iri what part of their respective dis- 
tricts such school houses shall stand, and may 
choose any committee to carry into effect the 
provisions aforesaid ; and they may also, by the 
prudential committee of the district, select, con- 
tract with, and employ, an instructor for each 
school in the district. 

Sect. 31. In all cases, where a prudential Duties of pm- 
committee shall not be chosen for any school denti ai com- 
district, the school committee of the town shall performed by 
perform all the duties of the prudential commit- town commit- 
tee thereof. tee ' in case ' 

Sect. 44. Whenever a meeting of the in-". 
habitants of any school district shall be called, f district re- 
for the purpose of raising money, and a major- fuse to raise 
ity of the voters present shall be opposed to the may^'der!" 
raising of the money, any five inhabitants of 1826, 143, § 16. 
such school district, who pay taxes, may make 1834 > 153 > § 6 - 
application in writing to the selectmen of the 
town, in which the school district is situated, 
requesting them to insert, in their warrant for 
the next town meeting, an article requiring the 



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If districts neg- 
lect to estab- 
lish schools, 
town commit- 
tee may do it. 



Forfeiture if 
towns neglect 
to raise money 
lor schools ; 
and how ap- 
propriated. 
1826, 143, § 19. 



School com- 
mittee, &c. to 
receive appro- 
priate sums for 
feited. 
1826, 143, § 19 



opinion of the town relative to the expediency 
of raising such moneys as were proposed in the 
warrant for said district meeting ; and if the 
majority of the voters, present in such town 
meeting, shall think the raising of any of the 
sums of money, proposed in said warrant, to be 
necessary and expedient, they may vote such 
sum as they shall think necessary for the said 
purposes, and the same shall be assessed on the 
polls and estates of the inhabitants of such dis- 
trict, and be collected and paid over, in the 
manner before provided. 

Sect. 45. If any school district shall neg- 
lect or refuse to establish a school and employ a 
teacher for the same, the school committee of 
the town may establish such school, and employ 
a teacher therefor, as the prudential committee 
might have done. 

Sect. 60. If any towns shall refuse or neg- 
lect to raise money for the support of schools, 
as required by this chapter, such town shall for- 
feit a sum, equal to twice the htghest sum, 
which had ever before been voted for the sup- 
port of schools therein ; and, if any town shall 
refuse or neglect to choose a school committee 
to superintend said schools, or to choose, for the 
purposes before mentioned in this chapter, pru- 
dential committees in their several districts, 
when it is the duty of the town to choose such 
prudential committee, such town shall forfeit a 
sum not less than one hundred nor more than 
two hundred dollars, which shall be paid into 
the treasury of the county ; and one fourth 
thereof shall be for the use of the county, and 
three fourths thereof shall be paid by the county 
treasurer to the school committee of such town, 
if any, and if not, to the selectmen of the town, 
for the support of schools therein. 

Sect. 61. Every such school committee, or 
board of selectmen, shall forthwith receive, from 
the treasurer of the county, any money so pay- 
able to them, and shall apportion and appropri- 
ate the same to the support of the schools of 



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such town, in the same manner it should have 
been appropriated, if it had been regularly rais- 
ed by the town for that purpose. 

SCHOOL RETURNS. 

. — to make re- 

Sect. 62. The school committees of the sev- turns to secre- 
eral towns and of the city of Boston shall, on or £"•£ ,.. 
before the first day of November, in each year, ^V, 143' VV. 
make official returns, to the secretary of the 
Commonwealth, of all the public schools in such 
towns and city, respectively, whether such 
schools are kept for school districts, or for the 
common benefit of all the inhabitants ; which 
said school returns shall be made as is provided 
in the two following sections. 

The 63d and 64th Sections of 23d Chapter 
Rev. Stat, are repealed by the Act of 1S37, 
chapter 227 ; and all reference to those sections 
contained in other sections of the 23d chapter, 
is to be considered as applying to the first and 
second sections of this act, which are as fol- 
lows, viz : 

Stat. 1837, chapter 227. 

Sect. 1. The school returns required in the Form ° f «>m- 
sixty second section of the twenty third chapter turns! 01001 ' e 
of the Revised Statutes, shall, so far as respects 
the several schools in each city and town, con- 
tain true statements in relation to the following 
particulars, and shall be made in the following 
form : 



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Such returns to 
answer certain 
specific ques- 
tions. 



Sect. 2. The said school returns shall, in 
addition to the statements required in the pre- 
ceding section, contain also true answers to the 
following general inquiries, respecting all the 
schools kept in each city or town, and shall be 
in the following form : 

1. What amount of money is raised by taxes 
for the support of schools ? 

2. What amount of the money raised by tax- 
es is paid for teachers' wages ; including the 
sums paid for the board of teachers, when paid 
from the public money ? 

3. What amount is raised by voluntary con- 
tribution, and applied to prolong common schools; 
including the value of fuel and board, if contrib- 
uted? 

4. Are there any academies or private schools? 
If any, what number of months is each kept ? 
And what is the average number of scholars at- 
tending each ? 

5. What is the estimated amount of monev 



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paid for tuition in academies and private schools 
kept in the town ? 

6. What number of persons are there in the 
town between the ages of four and sixteen 
years ? 

7. What books are chiefly used for the pur- 
poses of instruction in spelling, reading, arith- 
metic, grammar, geography, history, algebra, 
and geometry ? 

8. Are there any local funds for the support 
of common schools ? If any, what is their a- 
mount, and what their annual income ? 

Rev. Stat, chapter 23. ^ 

Sect. 65. The Secretary of the Common- ^.^if towns 
wealth shall annually furnish every town with with blanks, 
blank forms of returns, corresponding to the 1826 ' 143 ' § 9 - 
forms contained in the two preceding sections. 

Stat. 1836, ch. 245. 

Sect. 1. From and after the first day of A- children under 
pril, in the vear eighteen hundred and thirty 15 3~ ears , of age 

t_-ij j .1 c rir-4. not to be em- 

Seven, no child under the age of fifteen years p i yed in fac- 

shall be employed to labor in any manufactur- tones, unless 
ing establishment, unless such child shall have tended^schooi" 
attended some public or private day school, three months 
where instruction is given by a teacher quali- ™ tlie prece- 
fied according to the first section of the twenty in §> ear - 
third chapter of the Revised Statutes, at least 
three months of the twelve months next prece- 
ding any and every year in which such child 
shall be so employed. 

Sect. 2. The owner, agent or superintend- —Penalty on 
ent of any manufacturing establishment, who f 0r employing 
shall employ any child in such establishment children con-° 
contrarv to the provisions of this act, shall forfeit 5f^L *° J*J* 

^ ■ o er 3 n r i V i statute— and to 

the sum oi nity dollars ior each ortence, to be what use and 
recovered by indictment, to the use of common il0w recovera- 
schools in towns respectively where said estab- 
lishments may be situated. [April 16, 1836.] 

Stat. 1838, chapter 105. 

Sect. 1. The school committees shall an- S«^ mit i 8e i 3 to 
nually make a detailed report oi the condition detailed reports 



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ot condition of f tne seV eral public schools in their respective 

scnoois'. j • • i i 

towns, designating particular improvements and 

defects in the methods or means of education, 
and stating such facts and suggestions in rela- 
tion thereto, as in their opinion will best pro- 
mote the interests and increase the usefulness 
ports shan be °^ sa *°* scno °l s ; which report shall be read in 
disposed of. open town meeting, in February, March, or A- 
pril, in each year, or be printed and distributed 
for the use of the inhabitants, and shall be de- 
posited in the office of the clerk of the town ; — 
and an attested copy thereof shall be transmit- 
ted by said school committee to the office of the 
secretary of the Commonwealth, with the offic- 
ial return now required by law. 

co l nSlcl e wiS ld Sect - 2 - The s . ch ° o1 committees shall se- 
teachers, un- lect and contract with the teachers for the town 
less, &c an d district schools ; any provision in the twen- 

ty third chapter of the Revised Statutes to the 
contrary notwithstanding : provided, however, 
that the teachers may be selected and contract- 
ed with by the prudential committees as hereto- 
fore, whenever the town shall so determine. 
—Shall keep a Sect. 3. The school committee in each town 
record 'their sna U be provided with a record book, in which 
votes &c, and all votes, orders and proceedings of the commit- 
deiiver it to tee shall be duly recorded, and said record shall 
ord | s be delivered over by the committees, at the ex- 

piration of the year, to their successors in of- 
fice. 
Compensation Sect. 4. The members of the school com- 
of committees, mittees, except in the city of Boston, shall be 
paid, by their respective towns, one dollar each 
per day for the time they shall be actually em- 
ployed in discharging the duties of their office, 
together with such additional compensation as 
the town may allow. 
Form of blanks Sect. 5. The form of the blanks, and the 
to d be n prescrib- inquiries provided for by the statute of the year 
ed by board of one thousand eight hundred and thirty seven, 
education. chapter two hundred and twenty seven, and the 
time when the same shall be returned into the 
office of the secretary of the Commonwealth, 
shall hereafter be prescribed by the board of ed- 



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ucation. And the school committees shall fill 
the blanks and answer the inquiries contained 
in such form, in the same manner and under 
the same provisions as they are now required 
by law to do. 

Sect. 6. The board of education shall pre- Re „ isters t0 te 
scribe a blank form of a register, to be kept in kept by com- 
all the town and district schools in the Com- "J. 1 "^' Form 
monwealth ; and the secretary of state shall SC ribed by said 
forward a sufficient number of copies of the board, and sec- 
same to the school committees of the respective to* fo^aTcf** 6 
towns ; and said committees shall cause regis- them, 
ters to be faithfully kept in all said schools, ac- 
cording to the form prescribed. 

Sect. 7. The abstract of the school returns Abstract of re- 
shall be made up under the direction of the tur " s tc \ be 
board of education, in the office of the secretary action of said 

of the Commonwealth . board, in secre- 

tary's office. — 

Stat. 1838, chapter 189. 

Sect. 1. Any two or more contiguous school Pose and 
districts, in this Commonwealth, may associate manner of for- 
together and form a union district, for the pur- ming union dis- 
pose of maintaining a union school, to be kept tncts - 
for the benefit of the older children of such as- 
sociated districts, if the inhabitants of each of 
such districts shall, at legal meetings called for 
that purpose, agree to form such union by a vote 
of two thirds of the legal voters thereof. 

Sect. 2. Every union district thus formed Corporate 
shall be a body corporate, with the corporate ^°^ r ^ g ofsucl1 
powers of other school districts, in relation to 
prosecuting and defending suits at law, and hol- 
ding real and personal property, and shall be 
called by such name as said district at its first 
meeting shall determine. 

Sect. 3. The first meeting of such union JJ^J %^_ 
district shall be called in such manner, and at ing meetings, 
such time and place, as may be agreed upon by 
the associated districts respectively, by a vote 
of the same, at the time of forming the union ; 
and the union district may, from time to time 
thereafter, prescribe, the mode of calling and 



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warning the meetings thereof, in like manner 

as other school districts may do, and may also 

determine at what time its annual meetings 

shall be held. 

Clerk to be Sect. 4. Such union district, at the first 

sworn'; hisdu- meetin g tnere °f> shall choose, by ballot, a clerk, 

ties, and tenure who shall be sworn in the same manner and 

of office, shall perform the same duties as are prescribed 

in relation to the clerks of other school districts, 

and shall hold his office until another shall be 

chosen in his stead. 

rower of dis- Sect. 5. Such union district may, at any 

ing money u> 1S ~ legal meeting called for that purpose, raise mo- 

build, &c., ney for erecting, purchasing, renting and repair- 

& h ° o1 llouses ' ing any building to be used as a school house 

for the union school aforesaid, and purchasing 

Provision as to or rent ing land for the use and accommodation 

location of thereof; also, for purchasing fuel, furniture, and 

houses, aad other necessary articles for the use of said 

choiee of com- , -. , . J . , ,, 

mittee. school, and in assessing and collecting a tax or 

taxes for the above purposes, the like proceed- 
ings shall be had as are prescribed by law for 
other school districts : said district may also de- 
termine where said school house shall stand, 
and in case the location thereof should not be 
so determined by said district, the same shall be 
referred to the selectmen of the town, in the 
same manner as provided in the case of other 
districts : said district may choose any com- 
mittee to carry into effect the provisions afore- 
said. 
Who shall be Sect. 6. The prudential committees of the 
prudential respective districts forming the union district, 

committee of . 1 11 , =>. n . , 

such districts, shall, togetner, constitute the prudential com- 
Their powers, mittee of said district, who shall have all the 
powers, and discharge all the duties, in relation 
to said school and the school house of said dis- 
trict, as are prescribed to other prudential com- 
mittees in relation to the schools and school 
houses in their respective districts. 
Such commit- Sect. 7. The prudential committee of the 
tee to deter- union district shall also determine the ages and 
mine ages, &c. qualifications of the children of the associated 
the proportion districts, who may attend the union school, and 



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shall also determine what proportion of the mo- ^"JJJJ l J ^ 
ney, raised and appropriated by the town for e e x c p t e to%ote U of 
each of the districts composing the union dis- district, 
trict, shall be appropriated and expended in pay- 
ing the instructor or instructors of the union 
school; subject, however, in both the above ca- 
ses, and in all other matters relating to said 
school, to any votes of said union district that 
may be passed at any legal meeting thereof: — 
provided, however, that the schools in each of the 
associated districts shall continue to be main- 
tained in the same manner as if this act had 
not been passed. 

Sect. 8. The school committee of the town Town commit- 
in which such union district may be located, Je e ' 3 power, 
shall have the same powers and perform the to C untoa e dU« a 
same duties, in relation to such Union school, tricts. 
as are prescribed to them in relation to other 
district schools. [April 25, 1838.] 

Stat. 1839, chapter 56. 

Sect. 1. In every town in this Common- scnool to be 
wealth, there shall be kept, in each year, at the kept six mo*. 
charge of the town, by a teacher or teachers of™®^^* ^* 
competent ability and good morals, one school female assist^ 
for the instruction of children in orthography, aat3 ° 
reading, writing, English grammar, geography, 
arithmetic, and good behavior, for the term of 
six months, or two or more such schools for 
terms of time which shall together be equiva- 
lent to six months ; and in every school in this 
Commonwealth containing fifty scholars as the 
average number, the school districts or town to 
which such school belongs shall be required to 
employ a female assistant or assistants, unless 
such school district or town shall, at a meeting 
regularly called for that purpose, vote to dis- 
pense with the same. 

Sect. 2. Any two or more contiguous school Provisions tor 
districts may associate together and form a uni0Q distriot *J 
union district, for the purpose of maintaining a 
union school, to be kept for the benefit of the 
older children of such associated districts, if the 
inhabitants of each of said districts shall, 
at legal meetings called for that purpose, agree 
3 



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to form such union by a vote of two thirds of 
the legal voters of each district present and vo- 
ting therein. 
Appropriation Sect. 3. The income of the Massachusetts 
of income of school fund, except the sum of two hundred and 
school commit- mrt Y dollars appropriated to the support of com- 
tees to certify mon schools among the Indians, shall be appor- 
number of pu- tioned by the secretary and treasurer, and paid 
ed iy tovras 8 " over D y tne treasurer, on the fifteenth of lanu- 
go, ary, in each year, to the mayors and aldermen 
of the several cities, and to the selectmen of 
the several towns, for the use of the common 
schools therein, according to the number of per- 
sons in such cities and towns, between the ages 
of four and sixteen years ; and said persons 
shall be enumerated and ascertained in the fol- 
lowing manner, to wit : the school committee 
of each town shall, annually in the month of 
May, ascertain, from actual examination or oth- 
erwise, the number of persons between the ages 
of four and sixteen years, belonging to such 
town on the first day of said May, and shall 
make a certificate thereof, and also of the sum 
raised by the town for the support of schools, 
including only fuel, wages, and board of teach- 
ers, during the current year, and shall transmit 
the same to the secretary of the Commonwealth, 
at such time as may be prescribed by the board of 
education ; which certificate shall be in the fol- 
lowing form, to wit : 

We, the school committee of , do 

certify, from the best information we have been 
able to obtain, that on the first day of May, in 
the year , there were 

belonging to said town the number of 
persons, between the ages of four and sixteen 
years ; and we further certify, that said town 
has raised th§ sum of dollars, for the 

support of common schools for the current year, 
including only the wages and board of teachers, 
and fuel for the schools. 

> School Committee* 



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ss. 

On this day of , person- 

ally appeared the above-named school commit- 
tee of the town of , and made oath 
that the above certificate by them subscribed is 
true. 

Before me, 

Justice of the Peace. 

Provided, that no such apportionment shalllbe 
made to any town which shall have failed, for 
the year next preceding the time of such ap- 
pointment, to make the school returns and re- 
ports, required by law, or which shall have fail- 
ed to raise by taxation, for the support of schools, 
including only fuel, wages, and board of teach- 
ers, during the current year, a sum equal at 
least to one dollar and twenty five cents for each 
person, between the ages of four and sixteen 
years, belonging to said town, on the first day 
of the preceding May, or shall have failed to 
make return of the certificate as herein above 
provided. 

Sect. 5. The first section of the statutes of Repeal of for- 
the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty mer law > •fee- 
eight, chapter one hundred and eighty nine, so 
far as the same is inconsistent with this act, is 
hereby repealed. [March 18, 1839.] 

Stat. 1839, chapter 137. 

Whenever a town shall determine that teach- Provision for e- 
ers shall be selected and contracted with by the lectin ? three 
prudential committees of the several districts, prudential" 
according to the provisions of the one hundred committee; 
and fifth chapter of the laws of the year one 
thousand eight hundred and thirty eight, such a 
town or district may elect three persons as a 
prudential committee, who shall perform all the 
duties provided for in the twenty fifth section of 
the twenty third chapter of ihe Revised Stat- 
utes. [April 9, 1839.] 



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Condition upon 
which towns 
are released 
from support- 
ing a high 
school. 



Stat. 1840, chapter 76. 

Any town now required by law to maintain 
such a school as is described by the fifth section 
of the twenty third chapter of the Revised Sta- 
tutes, shall be released from their obligation by 
raising and expending annually for the support 
of town or district schools, twenty-five per cent, 
more than the greatest sum ever raised by as- 
sessment by said town, for this object, before 
the passage of this Act ; any thing in said sec- 
tion to the contrary notwithstanding. [March 
27, 1840.] 



Sect. IX. Children to be Vaccinated. 

No child, male or female, shall be admitted into the Pub- 
lic Schools, without producing the certificate of a Physician 
that said child has been vaccinated. 



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Sect. X. Division of the City into Districts. 

The City is divided into Districts according to the follow- 
ing arrangement : — 

No. 1. North District— North Salem. 

No. 2. Western District — Bounded by North River and 
a line running through Beckford, Essex and Summer streets 
to Mill Pond. 

No. 3. Central District — Bounded by North River and a 
line running through Beckford, Essex, Summer, Norman, 
Front, Charter, Vine, Elm, Essex and St. Peter's streets to 
North River. 

No. 4. North Eastern District — Bounded by the North 
River and a line running through St. Peter, Essex, Elm, 
Neptune, Derby, Daniels, Essex, and into Pleasant street so 
far as to include Briggs street on both sides, and all to the 
North and West of it. 

No. 5. South Eastern District — Bounded by a line com- 
mencing in Pleasant street at the head of Briggs street, and 
running to Essex, and through Daniels and Derby streets, so 
as to include Union Wharf. 

No. 6. South District — Contains South Salem, and so 
much of the City on the North side of the South River, as 
is included by a line running through Summer, Norman, 
Front, Charter, Vine, Neptune and Derby streets to Union 
Wharf. 

No. 7. West District for Girls — Contains South Salem, 
and all west of a line running through St. Peter's, Essex 
and Central streets. 

No. 8. East District for Girls — Contains all East ot the 
last mentioned boundary line. 

SUB-COMMITTEES. 

Latin Grammar School— Messrs Upham and Huntington. 

English High School— Messrs Cole and Chapman. 

West School for Boys — Messrs Parsons and Richardson. 

Boston St. Primary and Tapley Brook Schools— Messrs Very and Pierce. 

Central, Primary and Colored Schools — Messrs Fabens and Lord. 

East and Primary Schools — Messrs Osborne and Phippen. 

William St. and North East Primary Schools — Messrs Sessions and TTpton. 

North and North Primary Schools — Messrs Ives and Waters. 

South School — Messrs Russell and Porter. 

West Female School — Messrs Thompson and Mason. 

East Female School — Messrs Fisk and Goodhue. 



LATIN GRAMMAR SCHOOL. 

At a meeting of the- School Committee, Sept. 7, 1840, the 

following Resolve was passed : — 

Resolved, That the 6th Sect, of the Regulations of the 
Public Schools be amended, by substituting in the place of 
the paragraph near the close of the said Section beginning 
with the words " Every Wednesday and Saturday," the 
tollowing — " At least four half days in each week shall be 
devoted in this School [Latin Grammar] to the following 
exercises and studies, viz : — Writing, Arithmetic, Geogra- 
phy, English Grammar and Composition, Reading, Spelling, 
Declamation, &c." 

ENGLISH HIGH SCHOOL. 
OCT 3 The time for the examination of candidates for ad- 
mission to the English High School, has been changed from 
the Monday following the last Wednesday in August, to the 
Monday following the Annual Thanksgiving. 

PRIMARY SCHOOLS. 

At a meeting, Sept. 2ist, it was 

Voted, That Art. 5th of the 6th Section of the School 
itegulations, page 9, be amended, by adding to the text 
books of the Primary Schools, " Saunders' Primary School 
Primeif." 






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